Program Outcomes
Students graduating from MASS will have achieved development as leaders for sustainability by demonstrating their skill in three areas of practice.
I. Sustainability Literacy and Communication
Students will demonstrate an acquisition of these skills:
- Sustainability Literacy. Students will acquire the knowledge and wisdom to foster a sustainable world.
- Critical Thinking. Critically acquire, critically analyze and critically communicate information about sustainability in oral, written and electronic media formats to academic and diverse public audiences so as to facilitate informed decisions.
- Synthesis. Demonstrate fluency in the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary synthesis of information relevant to sustainability.
- Discourse. Engage in collaboration that promotes opportunities for emergent mutual discovery about sustainability from both a process facilitation and concept development perspective.
II. Methods of Sustainability Research
The student will be able to demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the following methods and techniques in order to make baseline, intervention-guiding, evaluation and monitoring observations in the real world:
- Research Design, Implementation and Analysis. Students will be adept at framing research questions, employing qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection and conducting appropriate analysis and evaluation of the results.
- Systems Modeling and Simulation. Students will learn computational methods that help explain complex social and ecological phenomena.
- Sustainability Assessment. Students will learn to observe and assess diverse indicators of sustainability in the field using appropriate measures and means of evaluation.
- Environmental Decision Making. Students will gain facility with tools that guide decision makers toward sustainable solutions.
- Spatial Representation of Sustainability Attributes. Students will understand spatial analysis and representation through mapping.
III. The Practice of Sustainability
- Stewardship and Restoration. Students will learn to identify sustainable systems and the steps needed to conserve and restore their health (i.e., ecological conservation and restoration) through the practice of active stewardship (i.e., sustainability management).
- Consensus Building Process. Students will learn and practice the methods of building common agreement among stakeholders to achieve sustainability.
- Best Practices. Students will demonstrate the ability to identify and foster recognized methods and interventions that work to promote sustainability.
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